Outside of client work I love contributing to and shaping the processes, culture and ambience of where I
work with my expertise and skills. This has led to fulfilling passion projects (digital and analog) with
lots
of growth and space for tinkering outside of work hours and during rainy weekends.
Talks, teaching and conferences
Nothing fuels creativity better than a fruitful exchange with like-minded people. I appreciate the
opportunities I've had to talk about issues that are close to my heart.Previously I have talked with and/or taught at GetYourGuide (2025), prompt:UX (2024), AirApps (2023), the
Bundesministerium für Bildung und
Forschung (2022), HAWK Hildesheim (2020) and HTW Berlin (2020–2021) on topics like product design,
artificial intelligence, conversational interfaces and large language models.
Custom RISO-printed workshop tools
I designed a set of archetype cards for workshops which were RISO printed sustainably with the patient
people at DRUCKEN3000↗ in Berlin. The cards are
based on the twelve archetypes put forth by C.G. Jung, which
are part of the brand strategy process at think moto.The front displays a colorful motif based on the archetype, whereas the back contains related traits,
attributes, brands and personalities.
Putting AI to work
The LLM Personality
Generator↗ is an AI-powered tool that I initially developed for think moto to
automate and visualize part of the strategic process to define the personality of a brand for usage in
prompts for LLM applications. The latest version utilizes a combination of the psychometric model Big Five
(or OCEAN) and OpenAI’s GPT-4o-mini.It allows users to define a personality on abstract sliders, which then is utilized to generate a prompt
excerpt that can be inserted in other prompts for any LLM. You can also test the effects of your personality
prompt right away by asking questions that will be answered based on the last generated prompt.Currently the generator does not allow for a full customization of tone of voice, response length or other
possibly necessary instructions, though I may add additional features in the future.
How energy intensive are designers?
In this internal initiative at think moto in Q4 2023 I was looking at the office’s environmental impact in
regards to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. The research and polling culminated in a fold-out
report made in RISO print with the ever amazing humans at, again, DRUCKEN3000↗ in Berlin.Who knew that barista-level coffee machines are this power-hungry? Bad news for the coffee crowd, good
news for the tea faction.
Feeling hungry?
While working at think moto, I developed a webscraper and Slack automation via the internal chatbot Oto
that scours the website of the
local canteen for their daily menu. The KulturKantine in the buildings of the former Königsstadt Brauerei is
part of the same Genossenschaft as think moto and thus a convenient
destination for lunch on most days.Every day between 11 AM and 12 PM and armed with a funny quip written by conversation designer and writer
Sonja Reichel, this automation
posts an update of what is ready to eat each day with some additional reminders and details.This website does not use any personal information or tracking, though it contains links to external
websites of third parties over whose content I have no influence. I cannot accept any liability for this
third-party content. The respective provider or operator of the pages is always responsible for the content
of the linked pages. The linked pages were checked for possible legal violations at the time of linking.
Illegal content was not recognizable at the time of linking. However, permanent monitoring of the content of
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